Abstract
This paper clarifies what Kazuko Tsurumi's thoughts on Kyosei and eco-becoming are from the two perspectives of the ethics of environment and care, by tracing the transition of Tsurumi's own thoughts on the subject. Based on this arrangement, I have positioned Kazuko Tsurumi, who has generally been introduced as a comparative sociologist, as a thinker of Kyosei and eco-becoming. In addition, I critically examine endogenous development theory, which has been the central argument in Kazuko Tsurumi's research, and refer to the three fields of applied ethics:(1)care ethics,(2) bioethics, and(3)environmental ethics, which are organized as follows:(1)Care ethics is a field of study that discusses the ethics of care between nature and humans, and among humans themselves.(2)Bioethics is a field that discusses the kyosei of healthy people and disabled people, in particular, among human beings.(3) Discussions in environmental ethics are concerned with the kyosei of nature and human beings. In some cases, by regarding nature as female, the kyosei between male and female is discussed. Based on the premise of these discussions, I have expanded the scope of Tsurumi's thoughts, which has been limited to endogenous development theory, to Tsurumi's poetics, which was born from her experience of a stroke and rehabilitation in her later years, centering on her Minamata research and the ethics of animism she learned from it, to clarify a wider range of possibilities. I have concluded that this was not nihilistic, but rather the impetus for her to arrive at endogenous degrowth theory in her life. This paper shows that Tsurumi's thoughts have the potential to contribute to the realization of a kyosei society.
